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enMeeting John Boltonhttps://www.amherst.edu/aboutamherst/magazine/issues/2008_winter/collegerow/bolton/node/54815
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p class="fine-print">By Emily Gold Boutilier</p><table border="0" align="right"><tbody><tr><td> <div class="mediainline"><img src="/media/view/39696/original/bolton_400px.jpg" border="0" alt="Bolton (400px)" title="Bolton (400px)" width="400" height="283"></div><div class="fine-print">On campus, former ambassador John Bolton (right) told the audience </div><div class="fine-print">that there are two options in dealing with Iran's nuclear program: </div><div class="fine-print">regime change or, as a last resort, targeted use of force. </div></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span class="drop-cap2">W</span>hen John Bolton, former U.S. representative to the United Nations, spoke on campus in December, North Korea and Iran were on his mind. “Neither country will be talked out of its nuclear weapons program voluntarily,” he said. “These weapons, in both cases, represent trump cards for their regimes that are too valuable to be given up for any peaceful incentive.” He said that in dealing with Iran’s nuclear program, there are but two options: regime change or, as a last resort, targeted use of force.<br> <br>It was standing-room-only at the lecture, held in Cole Assembly Room and sponsored by the Committee for the American Founding, a group created by Hadley Arkes, the Edward N. Ney Professor of Jurisprudence and American Institutions. The title of the talk was “Dealing with Rogue States After Iraq.” Bolton, a longtime American diplomat and Republican insider, served in the U.N. post from August 2005 to December 2006.<br><br>On Iraq, Bolton said, “do not succumb to the mythology that somehow our concern about those chemical weapons came from faulty intelligence or cherry-picked intelligence or spun intelligence or outright falsehoods by the administration. It came from Iraq’s own 1991 declaration.”<br><br>A dozen anti-war demonstrators (local residents, not Amherst students) gathered outside before the talk. Inside, one of them, his hands painted red, shouted that Bolton had blood on his hands. But the audience demanded that the protestor quiet down so Bolton could speak.<br><br>When he took questions, Bolton went head-to-head with Lawrence Douglas, the James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought, after Bolton said the impetus for the Nuremburg war trials came from the Russians. (Douglas: “That’s wrong.” Bolton: “No, it is not wrong.” Douglas: “I wrote a book on this.”)<br><br>Bolton also responded to a question about his 1994 remark that if the United Nations building “lost 10 stories, it wouldn’t make a bit of difference.” It was a general comment on bureaucracy, he said, and “after 16 months in New York, there’s no doubt in my mind that I was right.”<br><br>Farris Hassan ’11 was among the 22 students, professors, staff members and alumni—liberals and conservatives alike—to have dinner with Bolton that evening. Over chicken and wild rice, Bolton discussed everything from the Middle East to his last visit to the Pioneer Valley (it was in the 1960s, and he was visiting a young woman in Northampton—he didn’t elaborate). “The media presents a caricature of him as a gruff, hardheaded brute,” Hassan said after the meal. “But at dinner, he was affable and witty.” Arkes planned the dinner so that guests could raise questions in an intimate setting. “It’s the difference,” Hassan said, “between being able to say, ‘I met the man,’ and ‘I heard the man.’”</p><p class="fine-print">Photo by Charles Quigg '09 </p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/2923">united nations</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/taxonomy/term/5687">Amherst College Committee for the American Founding</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/5901">John Bolton</a></div></div></div>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:59:56 +0000kdduke54815 at https://www.amherst.eduhttps://www.amherst.edu/aboutamherst/magazine/issues/2008_winter/collegerow/bolton/node/54815#comments2008 Colloquium on the American Foundinghttps://www.amherst.edu/aboutamherst/news/eventsmultimedia/2008/node/45757
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>The 2008 Colloquium on the American Founding was held at Amherst College April 11-12, 2008. Audio from selected events is available below. For more information, <a href="/academiclife/projects/americanfounding">visit the Committee for the American Founding's Web site</a>. </p><br><table border="0" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5"><tbody><tr><td><div class="mediainline"><span class="inline"><img class="image thumbnail" src="/media/view/15018/thumbnail/audio_icon_660066.gif" border="0" alt="audio" title="audio" width="18" height="15"></span></div></td><td><p>Paul McHugh, Henry Phipps Professor of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, <a href="/media/view/45607/original/mchugh_paul.mp3">'Sex and Surgery': Surgeries without Illness"</a> <br /><div style="position: relative; display: block; max-width: 300px">
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<br /> (00:50:12)</p></td></tr><tr><td><div class="mediainline"><span class="inline"><img class="image thumbnail" src="/media/view/15018/thumbnail/audio_icon_660066.gif" border="0" alt="audio" title="audio" width="18" height="15"></span></div> </td><td>Noah Silverman, Republican Jewish Coalition, <a href="/media/view/45609/original/silverman_noah.mp3">"A View of the Political Landscape from Capitol Hill"</a> <br /><div style="position: relative; display: block; max-width: 300px">
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<br /> (00:59:33) </td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/2760">Colloquium on the American Founding</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/taxonomy/term/5687">Amherst College Committee for the American Founding</a></div></div></div>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:39:56 +0000samasinter45757 at https://www.amherst.eduhttps://www.amherst.edu/aboutamherst/news/eventsmultimedia/2008/node/45757#commentsFormer U.N. Ambassador John Bolton to Discuss “Dealing with Rogue States After Iraq” at Amherst College Dec. 3 https://www.amherst.edu/aboutamherst/news/news_releases/2007/11/node/27886
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><span><span class="fine-print">November 19, 2007<br></span></span><span><span class="fine-print">Contact: Caroline Jenkins Hanna<br>Director of Media Relations</span></span><span><span class="fine-print"><br></span></span><span><span class="fine-print">413/542-8417</span></span></p><p><span class="image thumbnail"><img src="/media/view/15018/thumbnail/audio_icon_660066.gif" border="0" alt="audio" title="audio" width="18" height="15"></span><a href="/2007/node/29389"><span class="image thumbnail">P</span>hotos and audio of this event</a></p> <p style="line-height:150%;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:150%;">AMHERST</span><span style="line-height:150%;">, Mass.</span><span style="line-height:150%;">—Former United Nations Ambassador John R. Bolton will deliver a lecture titled “Dealing with Rogue States After Iraq” at 8 p.m. in the Cole Assembly Room of Amherst College’s Converse Hall on Monday, Dec. 3. Sponsored by the Committee for the American Founding, the talk is free and open to the public.</span></p> <p style="line-height:150%;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:150%;">Bolton</span><span style="line-height:150%;"> currently serves as a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where his portfolio includes work with foreign policy and international organizations. Prior to arriving at AEI, Bolton served as the United States Permanent Representative to the U.N. from Aug. 1, 2005 to Dec. 9, 2006. From May 2001 to May 2005, he served as Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security. </span></p> <p style="line-height:150%;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:150%;">Before his work with the Bush administration, Bolton spent many years in public service. Previous positions include assistant secretary for international organization affairs at the Department of State, 1989 to 1993; assistant attorney general at the Department of Justice, 1985 to 1989; assistant administrator for program and policy coordination at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), 1982 to 1983; and General Counsel at USAID, 1981 to 1982.</span></p> <p style="line-height:150%;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:150%;">An attorney, Bolton also served as an associate and member of the Washington office of the Covington &amp; Burling law firm from 1983 to 1985 after his public service at USAID. He graduated from Yale College in 1970 and received his law degree from Yale Law School in 1974, where he was editor of the <em>Yale Law Journal</em>.</span></p> <p style="line-height:150%;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:150%;">Created by Hadley P. Arkes, the Edward Ney Professor in American Institutions (Political Science) at Amherst College, the Committee for the American Founding was started with the purpose of preserving</span><span style="line-height:150%;"> at Amherst the teachings of the American Founders and Abraham Lincoln regarding “natural rights.” Among the broad topics for the committee has been the defense of the American regime, in foreign and military policy.</span></p> <p style="text-align:center;line-height:150%;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="line-height:150%;">###</span></p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/5684">John R. Bolton</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/taxonomy/term/5685">Rogue States</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/5686">Hadley P. Arkes</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/taxonomy/term/5687">Amherst College Committee for the American Founding</a></div></div></div>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:54:48 +0000pmallen27886 at https://www.amherst.edu